Setting Up K Develop On Linux

This article refers to the compiled Irrlicht (1.4) and installed KDevelop (3.4).

- start KDevelop
- click Project > new Project ...
- choose the kind of project you like to start from the C++ tree (for example: Simple Hello world program)
- add a project name below
- click next (provide the asked informations for your project, if you like) or just click until finish

- click on 'Automake Manager' at the right side (if the menue isn't allready open)
- click the upper wrench buttom and select the 'Includes' tab
- add the path to the 'irrlicht-1.4/include' folder > ok
- add a -I (a capital i) in front of the path ('-I/your_path_to_irrlicht/irrlicht-1.4/include') > ok and ok

- click the lower wrench button > Libraries
- add the following lines to the lower window: - (the l's are not capital i's, they are L's)

-lGL
-lGLU
-lX11
-lXext
-lXxf86vm
/your_path_to_irrlicht/irrlicht-1.4/lib/Linux/libIrrlicht.a

- ok

copy/paste the code from the first tutorial, build and run it
and ready is your first irrlicht project ;)

Required packages installed

  • all irrlicht* packages
  • all libirrlicht* packages
  • kdevelop
  • automake
  • libtool
  • ...